Following Sunday's nasty bench-clearing incident in Anaheim that turned into an on-field brawl, Major League Baseball issued punishment for 12 Mariners and Angels players on Monday.
The Mariners' suspensions are listed below:
• Jesse Winker, LF: seven contests
• J.P. Crawford, SS: five contests
• Julio Rodriguez, CF: two contests
The Angels as well
• ten games under manager Phil Nevin
• 3B When Anthony Rendon (presently on the IL) returns, he will miss the next seven games and cannot sit on the Angels' bench.
Dom Chiti, a pitching assistant, played in five games.
• Andrew Wantz, RHP: three contests (not appealing)
• Ryan Tepera, RHP: three contests
RHP Ral Iglesias played in two games.
• Ray Montgomery, the bench coach, played in two contests
• Two games with interpreter Manny Del Campo
• One game for catching coach Bill Haselman
Mariner response
Players from Seattle will all appeal. The Mariners were instructed to space out their suspensions to prevent everyone from missing the same game.
The squad will be shorthanded when players are suspended because they cannot add new players to the 40-man roster. After Sunday's 2-1 loss, only those three Mariners players were suspended.
Regardless of the appeals procedure, the Mariners are already without critical players Ty France, Mitch Haniger, and Kyle Lewis due to injury, so Monday's announcement is a setback. Among the healthy, Crawford, Winker, and Rodriguez are three of their finest hitters; according to FanGraphs, Luis Torrens, a catcher, was also added to the 10-day disabled list on Monday due to soreness in his left shoulder, which he sustained during the altercation.
The event was discussed a day later in the Mariners' clubhouse at T-Mobile Park as they began a seven-game homestand against Baltimore.
Rendon started the confrontation. Nevin from the dugout, according to Winker, continued to be upset after the game on Sunday.
They went into further detail on Monday when the tense situation had abated.
"If they remove [Wantz], it comes to an end. If he hits me, I move to first base, and they expel him. Nothing happens if the actor's management and he don't speak. But as they conversed, I was unwilling to talk.
Winker declared, "As far as I'm concerned, that's the end. We'll only be concerned about defeating them the following time we encounter them. All that matters is that.
There are no "tough guys" here to act in front of the media, do this or that, or discuss penalties, suspensions, or anything else. We're going to defeat them because it will happen anyhow.
Before Monday's game, Mariners manager Scott Servais was dismissed on Sunday but not penalized and expressed his concerns.
According to Servais, it shouldn't be a part of Major League Baseball. "You can certainly point out that this or that should have occurred. It cannot be altered by traveling back in time. There will be some suspensions in the future, which will be painful because the players involved play a lot for us and perform a great job. And it hurts if a crucial player in the lineup is lost."
Rodriguez was fired without cause on Sunday; on Monday, he was still unsure whether he would be suspended.
On Sunday, when a reporter from the pool questioned the crew chief about the incident, Adrian Johnson responded, "That will be in the incident report to Major League Baseball." Rodrguez was not observed punching anyone.
Rodrguez responded, "No, I was trying to push them away.
The appeals process is scheduled to happen in the next few days.
Angels' Response
Nevin was the hardest impacted only 19 games into his tenure as the club's temporary manager. The team's three-game series against the White Sox, three-game series in Houston this weekend, two-game against the Marlins the next week, and the opening two games of a four-game series in Baltimore the following weekend will all be missed by him. He said he didn't start Wantz with the idea of throwing at Mariners players before Monday's game.
"That's not true," Nevin remarked. "But I don't want to engage in a verbal battle over that. That's over. It's the end of yesterday. Now we turn to the White Sox."
Iglesias gave a two-game suspension, while Tepera was given a three-game ban. However, Tepera and Iglesias are both appealing and were qualified to play on Monday against the White Sox. Sunday, Iglesias maintained his innocence, throwing a bucket of sunflower seeds onto the field after being informed of his dismissal.
Chiti was suspended for five games, Montgomery for two, Del Campo for two, and Haselman for one among the coaching staff for the Angels.
Montgomery and Haselman will serve once Chiti returns from his sentence, while Nevin, Chiti, and Del Campo began serving their suspensions on Monday. Various reports indicate that Montgomery will manage Nevin.
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